Improvement in trimmings



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MORRIS P. BRAY, OF BIRMINGHAM, CONNECTICUT.

`IMPROVEMENT IN TRIMMINGS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 186,454, dated January 23, 1877 application filed september 15, 1816.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORRIS P. BRAY, of Birmingham, in the county of New Haven and State'of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Edge-Trimming for Garments; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters `of' reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specication, and represent, iny Figure 1, a front View; and in Fig. 2, a transverse section enlarged. l

This invention relates to an improvement in fabricated binding, designed with special reference to the manufacture of corsets.

The usual method of finishing the edge of corsets is to rst bind the edge and then stitch an ornamental edging to that binding.

The object of this invention is to producethe edging and binding in the same article, and thereby save both expense in the manufacture of the article andlabor in applying it; and it consists in a fabricone edge of which is divided andthe other ornamented by a fabricated edging, as more fully hereinafter described.

The article is woven with one edge divided to produce two parts, a b. lIhe other edge is `woven close, or together, for the distance required for the ornamentation. In this edge ornamental threads are introduced in Weaving, producing any desirable amount of ornamentation on the edge, and thus combining in one article both the binding and edging'.

While designed with special reference to the manufacture of corsets, it will be understood that this article is applicable to other purposes.

I do not wish to be understood as broadly claiming a fabric woven double, and open at one edge and single at the other, as such, I am aware, is not new.

IA claim- As a new article of manufacture, an edging or binding consisting ot a strip of fabric having the double edge a b and single embroidered edge c, the same being Woven all in one, substantially as described.

MORRIS P. BRAY.

Witnesses:

W. T. BAcoN, Jr., DAN. H. BACON. 

